ALiVE Menu won't pop up, only hear a "bloop" sound

Hello! I'm trying to use the Combat Support module in one of my missions, this is the first time I've tried support assets. I have only tried the Artillery submodule, and it looks like my only problem is that the ALiVE menu won't pop up, all I hear is the ARMA "bloop" UI sound like it's saying "no, you can't do that, something else needs to happen before you can do that." I know it's bound, I have tried both Custom Action 20 and the Configure Addons / ALIVE MENU keybinds, same "bloop" sound.

Let me know where I'm going wrong:

* Mission is on the Summer Chernaurus map.

* I inserted the main support module and the artillery submodule, and synced the artillery submodule to the main support module.

* I have the main support module with "Laserdesignator" set as the required loadout item, which ingame is the Laser Designator "Sand", IIRC. When I start my mission, I grab it from a Virtual Arsenal, I don't have a custom loadout set for any units at the moment.

* I am playing as the Russians, and the artillery units spawn correctly as the rhs_2s3_tv, the same units as I set in the Artillery Support submodule options. They are friendly to my units and to me, so that's good, means we're recognized as being on the same side.

* Armed with the Laserdesignator item, I click CTRL-9 (my keyboard does not have the app menu key so I added this keybind in Configure Addons), but I only hear the "bloop" sound. Nothing happens other than that sound.

MOD INFO:

I'm using ALiVE with RHS USA and AFRF, CUP Core & Terrain, and ACE3, all mods are subscribed from the Steam Workshop from the original authors, along with the dependencies which I believe is only CBA.

The default binding is still there, I have just added another keybind to it.

When I delete my *added* keybind (Ctrl-9) and add a different keybind (Ctrl-8, for instance), then the previous *added* keybind ceases to work (Ctrl-9), and the new keybind (Ctrl-8) then works, but again, "works" meaning it's not displaying the ALiVE menu, just triggers the ARMA UI "can't do that" sound.

The sound you’re hearing is the sound the ALiVE menu makes when it opens. But apparently, the UI itself isn’t opening which yeah, that’s a problem (and unfortunately a few people have reported this).

To me it seems tied to people binding the key to something other than default (app menu is the default key), possibly with a bug in CBA. Can you try going back to the default key, making sure your CBA is up to date, then completely restarting your PC and seeing if it finally works?

Maybe seeing as you have a definite error message relating to CBA, Commy (CBA dev) can help you over in the CBA thread on BI forums? The guy seems like a real whiz and can probably help you troubleshoot this. Couldn’t hurt asking over there for sure.

Yeah all my CBA keybinds (which I didn't change) now have to either have the Shift or Ctrl key used in order to activate anything in Arma 3 after their last "update". Case in point is my Zeus activation key was/is default set to Y and I didn't adjust it. I now have to hold Ctrl then press Y for Zeus to activate....If I change the keybind to Ctrl-Y it doesn't work.

ok got the cba error(somehow got mapped to custom user 20) fixed but the Alive problem still exists..just a bleep but no access to the c2 menu

Just set up a simple one on one bash and got this error in both single and multi player14:16:44 CallExtension 'ALiVEPlugIn' could not be found14:16:44 "THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE ALIVE PLUGIN!"14:16:44 CallExtension 'ALiVEPlugIn' could not be found14:16:44 "THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE ALIVE PLUGIN!"14:16:44 DATA: Attempting to load ALiVE web services config.14:16:44 CallExtension 'ALiVEPlugIn' could not be found14:16:44 "THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE ALIVE PLUGIN!"14:16:44 ALiVE-0 CANNOT CONNECT TO CLOUD SERVICE, DISABLING WEB SERVICES

This must be from when I tried to access the c2 menu14:16:50 ALiVE [m_10|150] Module ALiVE_MIL_C2ISTAR INIT14:16:50 No speaker given for

Mission runs fine. Just no access to the c2 menu. I have tried re-subscribing to Alive on steam but no change.

Are you on Discord? Commy just left a reply in the ALiVE Discord channel (no solution, they’re just trying to figure out if it’s ALiVE’s fault or CBA’s). He may or may not need your rpt. Might not be a bad idea to hop on and follow along there.

So I got a new keyboard yesterday, one that doesn’t have an app menu key, and I’m having the same issue (rebind key, only get sound and no menu). If anyone has any troubleshooting steps I can follow to reveal the cause of the issue, I’m willing to spend some time with this.

@jtareb1@Nichols Until this is properly fixed, I was able to get it to work by going in-game and deleting the app menu key bind and replacing it with the left windows key. Then, restarting Arma completely. Somehow this works (thanks @bradon for the tip). It may not work for you guys but worth a shot.